Covered frame for furniture



(No Model.)

H. HEYWOOD.

COVERED FRAME FOR FURNITURE.

No. 383,628. Patented Jan. 5, 1886.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY HEY'WOOD, OF GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS.

COVERED FRAME FOR FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,628. dated January 5, 1886.

Application filed July 11, 1885. Serial No. 171,272. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY HEYWooD, of Gardner, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Covered Frames for Furniture and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top View, and Fig. 2 is a bottom View, of a chair-seatembodying my invention. Fig. 3 is a section on line 56 :0.

My invention consists in a frame, A, grooved at a on its upper side and also at b on its lower side, covered with a sheet, 13, of woven cane or like sheet material, the sheet covering the upper surface and edge of the frame, and overlapping upon the under side, and being secured in groove a by spline or upon the upper side of the frame, and by an additional groove b and spline b on the under side of the frame. The sheet of rattan webbing B or the like is secured upon the upper side by the groove a and spline a, and extends over the edge of the frame, and is also secured by the groove b and spline b on the under side of the frame.

I am aware that patents have heretofore been granted which show a seat of sheet material secured to its frame by a spline and groove, but I am the first, so far as I am aware, to produce a frame covered with sheet material in which the sheet material covers the upper surface and edge and laps over upon the under side of the frame, and is secured by a spline and groove upon both the upper and under sides.

In my new frame not only do both splines and grooves act each as an aid to the other, but the overlapping of the sheet material also aids in holding the sheet material, while the upper groove and spline prevent undue strain on the sheet material over the corners of the frame A. The web B, when wet to soften it, and fastened in that condition on the surface of the frame in the usual way in drying, often shrinks so much as to warp and injure the frame, but continuing the web over the edge and under the opposite side of the frame and fastening it with another hoop or spline, as above described, not only prevents the warping of the frame but strengthens it in all its joints and covers up all imperfections in bot-h material and Work.

My frames are useful as carriage ornamentation and for table-tops, counters, and generally in furniture of every kind.

What I claim as my invention is- The improved covered frame above described, consisting of the frame A, sheet material B, groove a, and spline a on the upper side, and groove (9 and spline b, on the under side of the frame, the sheet material covering not only the upper side of the frame, but also its edge and a portion of the lower side.

HENRY HEYWOOD.

\Vitnesses:

THATOHER B. DUNN,

JoHN D. EDGEL. 

